Discussion Response

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The species I chose for this assignment is a type of glowing  jellyfish and the website is sciencemag.org. I am very interested in  ocean life and how all the creatures come to develop and evolve to the  different depths of the ocean. As I was going through the main page of  google I tried to look for a website that had the word org at the end. I  prefer these sites because they are more oriented towards giving out  factual information versus a .com page that anyone could create, and  type whatever it is that they like without fact checking. As part of  doing online courses, APU also makes you take a class that goes into how  to verify online sources and how to distinguish the good sites from the  bad, that I found very useful. 

Through the website I researched the scientists discovered the Aequorea australis. This jellyfish has been a breakthrough in finding alternate ways of how genes are found in cells. 

This website is good source of information as it is a peer reviewed  magazine. It also has links that are active, that take you to other  articles and expand on the subject which they are talking about. As an  example, the article talked about three researchers that won a Nobel  Prize for discovering green fluorescent protein as well the development  of it and it had the word that you can click on that will take you to  the article about the three scientists. This was done throughout the  entire article on various topics that are related to the protein that  was discovered in this jellyfish. The article also went in depth about  how the process went into this jellyfish to discover its proteins and  how useful it will be to other research and scientists.

Frederick, Eva, (2019 Jul 19). This jellyfish makes glowing proteins previously unknown to science. Sciencemag.org. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/jellyfish-makes-glowing-proteins-previously-unknown-science